Rutgers University
Professor at Rutgers University, focusing on education finance and policy
PROFILE
Bruce Baker
Guest
FROM Bruce Baker
To the Point
Charter Schools Face Growing Pains In the past 20 years, charters have established themselves as familiar alternatives to the perceived failures of traditional public schools. With teachers and politicians still debating their educational quality, another question has been submerged: who's keeping track of the money? Some non-profit charters are managed by for-profit companies, and local school boards often lose track of what's happening to public funds. Do charters make public education a backdoor to private profit using taxpayer money?
Recommended
To the Point
Replacing Obamacare: Now you see it… now you don’t As the Senate deliberates replacing Obmacare, health coverage for millions of people is at stake. There've been no public hearings, and a draft measure won't be made public. Is the House version so unpopular that that Senate is hiding a version that looks much the same?
To the Point
Trump's 'America First' goes missing abroad In the Middle East, President Trump is changing some policies of the Obama Administration—and reversing his own campaign attacks on Islam as a religion that "hates us." We hear about his visit to Saudi Arabia and what's at stake for the rest of his foreign excursion.